Create a survey with shared Answer Choices that displays results on a Spider Plot (radar) chart

Owned by Matt Kepple
Last updated: May 14, 2024
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When you create a survey with questions that have Shared Answer Choices, the results can be shown on a Spider Plot (radar) outcome chart, as shown below.

Definitions

  • Shared Answer Choices: This means that several questions have the same set of multiple choice answers available.

  • For example, if there are several questions that let the respondent select from the following set of answers, (this is often called a Likert Scale)

    • Strongly Agree,

    • Agree,

    • No Opinion,

    • Disagree

    • Strongly Disagree,

  • …you should use the shared Answer Choices option so that

    • (1) you save time when creating the survey,

    • (2) you can display survey results using a Spider Plot outcome chart.

Steps

  1. Create an outcome. (If you are unsure what to call your outcome, you could give the outcome the same name as your survey. Don’t add any Trackers to the outcome at this stage. Simply press Save.)

  2. If you would like to display different questions within different Spider Plot outcome charts, create multiple outcomes - one for each group of questions.

  3. Create a Multiple Choice Tracker for the first question only. Press Save and Add Another

  4. Create a Multiple Choice Tracker using Shared Answer Choices for each of the subsequent questions.

    1. This means that rather than typing in the Answer Choices manually, use the “Start with an existing set of choices” option and choose the title of the first question of that survey.

    2. This will automatically add the answer choices.

    3. Press Save and Add Another until the final question; on that last question just press Save

  5. You arrive on the Manage Metrics page. Use it to find the outcome you created for that survey. 

  6. Edit that outcome and add to it the questions you’ve added by typing them into the Add Trackers field. Press Save once you have added them all.

  7. Now create a survey - the name of the survey should be the name of the survey.

    1. Leave the Use Points (Create a Verdict) option set to Off

    2. The questions you created will be in the Your Questions box on the left. They will all be grouped under the Outcome you created. 

    3. Press the Add Outcome Tracker button next to each outcome; it will add all the questions in that outcome to the survey. 

    4. A popup appears asking you to choose the Multiple Choice Setting for each question. Choose the appropriate answer; typically Single Choice is sufficient.

    5. Scroll down to the Advanced section,

      1. open it

      2. tick the Display spider plot outcome charts tick box.

  8. Scroll to the bottom and press Save

  9. You arrive on the Survey Template page

  10. If you need to reorder any of the questions within the survey, return to the Edit Survey page and follow these steps to reorder the questions

  11. Now that the survey has been created you can add it to the projects it is meant to be added to

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